IB PYP Science Inquiry How the World Works -Earth's Structure & Landforms

A highly engaging IB PYP science inquiry through the concept of Earth's structure, exploring the theme of How the World Works. Take the children to the centre of the Earth! Be the Miss Frizz of your classroom with this complete earth science, IB PYP unit of inquiry. How the World Works: Central idea: The Earth’s structure is constantly changing through processes and forces that can impact society.

This unit is all about the amazing moving and shaking of our Earth’s surface, as we explore the science behind plate tectonics and how the processes under the Earth lead to the movement and changing of our world as we know it, how landforms are created and the cycle of the Earth’s life is at the hands of erosion and deposition. Go back 200 million years and explore Pangaea and make the connections between the world then and now. With over 140 pages of interactive, science foldables, flippables, hands on , engaging, inquiry based activities, this transdisciplinary unit will take you through math, critical thinking, writing, geography, reading for information and, of course, science. UK & USA spelling included.

Lines of inquiry include:

• The Earth's structure
  
• Causation of landforms
• How do changes in Earth’s surface impact humans?
•  Scientists detect and protect from potential natural disasters

A week long, collaborative summative assessment is an inquiry based project involving a mystery island that must be explored, researched and prepared for populating. The children are required to use their knowledge over the course of the unit, work as a team and present their findings, hypotheses and designs. Learning how to read clues from artefacts and also from evidence in the text, helped us to become incredible geologists as we had to figure out the answers to our lines of inquiry. This involved a lot of reading for information, analysing text and recognising non fiction text features. Through explorations within math, reading, writing, geography and history, the children gather knowledge of how plate tectonics contribute to how our world is shaped today.

If you enjoy this complete unit of inquiry, you may also like my others:

• Human Rights & Responsibilities
• Revolutions Across Time
• Who We Are-Beliefs & Values
• Human Migration -Where We Are in Place & Time
• Ocean Life -Sharing the Planet
• Money: An Inquiry
• And many more in my blog and in my store.

Enjoy!

Susan Powers

PYPteachingtools.com

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